Jan Schakowsky Townhall Report

Earlier tonight I attended Townhall meeting held by Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL). It featured everything I have seen read, and heard about. There were some campaigning, there were TV crews there. There was leftist astroturfing. Signs weren't allowed inside, but they wore mass produced sticky badges. Seats towards the front were reserved for the brownshirts, so they outnumbered regular citizens, but their voices could still be heard.

During the meeting, Rep. Schakowski said she had read the bill. However, when questioned on Sec 431A on p.195 regarding the Health Chioces Administration having access to taxpayer information such as filing status, income, and dependents, she said she'd have to get back to us on that.

One hard-hitting question about her buddy President Obama was regarding the video clip of him saying he's "a proponent of a single payer healthcare plan" to the SEIU in 2003 and 2007. His key statement was " I don't think we can eliminate employer healthcare coverage immediately. There's going to be potentially some transition process. I can envision a decade out, or 15 years out, or 20 years out." However, earlier this year at the AMA he says that "those who are claiming a public option is a Trojan horse for a single payer system (is) an illegitimate concern that's being put forward". The question was, "was he lying then, or is he lying now?" Complete with thunderous applause. Of course she wouldn't answer the question.

After the Townhall adjourned, I saw the astroturfers outside the building holding their mass produced signs chanting, health care now! on the other side were the tea party protesters, and with them were LaRouche democrats with their Obama as Hitler signs.

Going to this Townhall only deepened my convictions to fight government run health care in any way possible, and this blog is part of that fight. (HT YouTube):

YouTube: SHOCK UNCOVERED: Obama IN HIS OWN WORDS Saying His Health Care Plan Will ELIMINATE Private Insurance

Astroturfing Update

It seems now that in addition to union and ACORN thugs being paid to attend Townhall meetings, ads are also being posted on Craigslist to recruit more brownshirts. Offering $500 a week to protest for Obamacare. More From RedState:

"So I received an email/comment this morning about a craigslist ad soliciting health care activism for money. “Activism for money,” I thought!! Was this it at last? The missing link Democrats have been searching for? Obamacare opponents turning up at town halls really are a mob?

We really are nothing but a slew of paid hacks drummed up by the promise of easy cash by cynical Obamacare opponents to create an artificial appearance of opposition?!?

Ummmm, no.

So I started searching around, and posting links on Twitter, and reading links I received by reply. Turns out there are hundreds, if not thousands, of advertisements seeking “activists” who will be paid to support Obamacare. That’s right CNN. That’s right Olbermann. You want astroturf? It’s out there by the dozens. In support of, not in opposition to."

Here's a challenge: Go to Craigslist, search for Obama in All Jobs, pick your city, and see how many results you get.

Our good friend George Soros is back. This from Hot Air:

"In another sign of the urgency gripping the pro-health care reform camp, billionaire George Soros has pledged to sink $5 million into the fight, the group getting the money confirmed.

Soros — whose operation carefully guards the privacy of such donations — made the pledge to Health Care For America Now, the leading coalition of pro-reform groups, unions and providers, HCAN chief Richard Kirsch confirmed in an email that was forwarded to me." …

Soros $5,000,000 pledge is more proof that the real astroturfing is coming from the left, regardless of Harry Reid holding up astroturf for the TV cameras.

Red State: Let’s Talk Astroturf
Hot Air: Guess Who’s Funding ObamaCare Advocates?

Time To Define Terms

As you know the word Nazi has been all the rage lately. However, I doubt that most people know what it really means. When you think Nazi, you think Hitler and you should. However, do you know Hitler's ideology? This separates the professionals from the rank amateurs.

Nazi is an abbreviated term for the German words National Socialism. As the name suggests, features of nationalism and socialism are combined to form a National Socialist ideology, although the combination process isn't very straightforward. The term most typically refers to Nazism, which was the extreme form of the National Socialism ideology of the German Nazi Party (National Socialist German Workers' Party, or NAtionalsoZIalistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (NSDAP)), which was led by Adolf Hitler.

Notice I purposely put the letters NA and ZI in caps. Nazi is an acronym more than anything else. So when somebody calls you or any other conservative a Nazi, they're calling you an extreme socialist. Don't let them get away with that.

Now Nancy Pelosi, the one who started all this, said the following:

PELOSI: I think they are Astroturf -- you be the judge -- of carrying swastikas and symbols like that to a town hall meeting on health care.

Here's what she was really referring to. (HT Atlas Shrugs):



This photo states two things: The crowd opposes Nazi Fascism, and the crowd correctly identifies King Hussein and the Democrat leadership as Fascists and Nazi-like radical Socialists. This is a classic leftist tactic: accuse your opponent of what they're guilty of. Calling in union thugs to these townhall meetings is astroturfing. If you look at this article, you'll see that David Axelrod practically invented astroturfing.

Going Forward Nancy Pelosi will be known as Nazi Pelocchio, because she's a radical socialist and a (poor) liar.

You can read more about National Socialism here. (HT Huffing and Puffington Post & Wikipedia):

Huffing and Puffington Post: David Axelrod: A Tale of Two Firms
Wikipedia: National Socialism